Eutechnyx Announces MOBA Set In Warhammer 40K

Today Eutechnyx announced Storm of Vengeance, a MOBA set in Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40K universe. Players will battle on planet Piscina IV and can choose to fight as the bloodthirsty orks or the perennially cool dark angel space marines.

This is a new approach to the franchise, leaving the turn-based or real-time strategy for a “lane strategy game.” Storm of Vengeance is set for a 2014 release on PC and mobile platforms.

Our TakeAs a long-time Warhammer fan, I like to seek out new ways to experience the universe. I’m keeping an eye on the MMO Eternal Crusade. Storm of Vengeance could pan out to be fun for my mobile device and could do well to calm my anticipation for the MMO.

THANK YOU, ISAAC! I've been trying to come up with a new thing to call a "MOBA", since that stupid acronym is so frickin' generic! I was trying to work in terms like "lane" or "creep killing" or "boring" :P I just couldn't figure it out. LSG - a Lane Strategy Game - is PERFECT for being contrarian. Which I seriously don't mind in this case, because I really, REALLY hate MOBA. Ugh.
At any rate, I'm interested in this mostly because of the developer. I'm 100% with the Second Take there. They're a racing studio, and has only branched out to try and salvage Deep Silver's Ride to Hell (which we all know turned out pretty badly). So this seems really weird to me. That sounds like something worth keeping an eye on. It's just such a weird move...

Do we need another moba, i mean really? They are complex games, and your not going to see a huge divide of the market for that reason. They simply take too long to master, and with so many coming out, the competition will be between those and the longstandng dota and Lol. Mayb e pessimistic, but its not a great market imo. The most potential for one rests with blizzards, as they have a huge mlg following.

Hm... So, it's a MOBA, like so many others announced, by a studio that hasn't really done well outside of racing titles, and it's going to be playable on mobile devices? There is literally no chance of this being a success.

I've always been skeptical about console WH games. Space Marine was a standout among the herd of "meh" titles released on current consoles, and it was squashed under the hype for Gears 3 being released a week later, so nobody outside of 40k fans seem to know it exists, unfortunately. There's still an online community for Space Marine (playing solely annihilation matches, which isn't a bad thing), so hop on and join your battle brothers if you have a copy.
Nothing but the Emperor is all.

This reminds me of that dungeons and dragons fighting game for the PS1. Blood and Steel I think it was called. An tabletop RPG made into a fighting game..... one of those "what the hell kinda drugs were they on" games. Now a tabletop game based on large scale battles as a MOBA..... Makes since. Next they can do a monster collecting game based on the universe. Call it PokeHammer 40,000, you play Bob the gaurdsman as he collects all different types of orc. Gotta catch them all! Ok I'm rambling anyway this is a bad idea.